She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

Snooker is just chess with balls.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

They had a... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.

It's not about the journey. It's about the people you meet.

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

I refuse to let the past find me here.

It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.